Environmental Protection Agency

In the Michigan v. EPA case, the high court by a 5-to-4 vote reversed the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by finding that the EPA was unreasonable when it said that cost was irrelevant. The case involved the regulation of power plants.

There is little question that the President’s Climate Action Plan proposes innovative, far-reaching and controversial measures, and it is not clear that the quantifiable benefits of the regulations would justify the unprecedented costs.

The companies are on the hook for a combined $300 million for incorrectly stating the fuel economy of over 1.2 million cars. Both automakers will also lose 4.75 million Green House Gas emissions credits, 4.75 million tons worth of GHG emissions that could have been used to come in under...

According to the appeals court, the EEOC did not demonstrate effectively that male and female attorneys in the case performed jobs of “substantially equal” value, which is the perquisite for cases brought under the Equal Pay Act.